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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInCadwalader Adds White Collar Defense Partner Gina Castellano | Cadwalader
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP today announced that Gina Castellano, who served most recently as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has joined the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations practice as a partner in New York. Castellano brings to Cadwalader years of experience prosecuting white collar cases as […]
The Plaintiffs’ Law Firms’ Securities Litigation Business | The D&O Diary
To try to derive the kinds of information that would allow lead plaintiffs and courts to fulfill their intended roles, the authors reviewed case records of thousands of cases, as a way to identify important indica of law firm performance as well as to extract detailed information about the fee awards. With the benefit of […]
Top Republicans double down on efforts to rein in SEC Gensler’s Climate Proposal | Fox Business
In a letter, reviewed by FOX Business, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., along with Senate Banking Committee ranking member Tim Scott, R-S.C., and House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., are demanding that Gensler turn over all related communications and records on the rule going back as far as […]
Eversheds Sutherland Attracts Securities Enforcement Attorney Elizabeth Baird to Expand Litigation Practice – Eversheds Sutherland
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Elizabeth H. Baird has joined the firm’s Litigation Practice Group as a partner. Seated in the Washington office, Ms. Baird will expand the firm’s securities enforcement and investment services capabilities with an emphasis on large-scale independent and internal investigations within the financial services sector. Previously, Ms. Baird was […]
Program: SEC’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion — OMWI at 10 Years | SEC Historical Society
Join the SEC Historical Society and Howard University School of Law for a special program featuring the Director of the SEC’s Office of Women and Minority Inclusion (OMWI) and three former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairs who served during the first decade of OMWI’s operations. In this program, you’ll learn about OMWI’s origin and […]
Former SEC Accountant Trevor Donelan joins AlixPartners | AlixPartners
AlixPartners, the global consulting firm, today announced that Trevor Donelan has joined its Risk Advisory team as a Partner & Managing Director. Trevor joins AlixPartners after serving the past eight years as a Senior Enforcement Accountant in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement. He will be based in Boston. Source: Former SEC Accountant […]
AlixPartners expands roster of former SEC Accountants | AlixPartners
AlixPartners, the global consulting firm, today announced the addition of Justin Sutherland, expanding its Investigations, Compliance & Privacy team, which now includes five former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Division Accountants. Justin, previously a Senior Advisor to the Enforcement Division Chief Accountant, joins Matt Jacques, Susan Markel, Brad Mroski, and Jim Barratt—all of […]
The SEC’s Other ‘Hotel California’ Docket | LinkedIn
In a recent column I called the SEC out for its appalling dereliction of duty in refusing to decide administrative appeals from enforcement sanctions imposed by the agency’s administrative law judges (ALJs)…. *** In my research for that column, I largely ignored the SEC’s parallel appellate docket: Appeals from enforcement sanctions imposed by the so-called self-regulatory […]
Wells Fargo Discloses US Probes as Scrutiny of Messaging Apps’ Use Widens – Bloomberg
Wells Fargo & Co. said that US regulators are investigating its retention of employee communications over unapproved messaging apps, the latest bank to get caught up in an industrywide sweep that’s already yielded over $2 billion in fines. Probes by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission were disclosed Tuesday in […]
China Urges State Companies to Drop PWC, KPMG, Deloitte, EY on Data Risk – Bloomberg
Chinese authorities have urged state-owned firms to phase out using the four biggest international accounting firms, signaling continued concerns about data security even after Beijing reached a landmark deal to allow US audit inspections on hundreds of Chinese firms listed in New York. China’s Ministry of Finance is among government entities that gave the so-called […]